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(#17) Many Biblical Heroes Weren't Exactly Upstanding Citizens
If you think the Bible's full of nothing but pious holy rollers, think again - many of the Bible's most famous heroes are anything but flawless. Exodus 2:12 recounts the tale of a young Moses murdering a guy and trying to hide the body in the sands of Egypt. The verses of Acts 9 reveal the apostle Paul murdered hundreds of Christians before becoming one himself.
Even King David is busted in 2 Samuel 11:14-17 for making sure one of his soldiers dies in battle to avoid confessing he'd knocked up the soldier's wife while he was away.
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(#18) The Bible Hates Judgy People Just As Much As You Do
Though a common stereotype about Christians is they're like the hall monitors of the world, believers who behave this way do so in opposition to the Bible. Christ couldn't have been any clearer in Matthew 7:1-3 when He warned, "Judge not, lest you be judged." Even Paul weighs in, in 1 Corinthians 5:12, when he asks, "What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church?"
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(#13) Not Every Part Of The Bible Was Intended For Everyone
Some people believe every word of the Bible was intended to be taken literally and obeyed by everyone for all time, but the Bible itself couldn't contradict this idea more:
- Leviticus 26:46 specifically states the group of laws detailed in that particular section of the Bible were part of an agreement exclusively between God and the nation of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 5:2-3 details another set of laws that were valid for the Israelites of that time period, but not for their ancestors.
- Hebrews 8:13 describes God doing away with one set of laws and replacing them with another.
- Galatians 5:4-6 states the old laws have been made pointless and have been replaced with a command to express faith through love.
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(#7) 'Biblical Marriage' May Not Mean What You Think
Current usage of the term "biblical marriage" is ironic, as it does not reflect the depictions of marriage found in the Bible itself. Taken literally, the term hardly specifies the marriage of one man and one woman - the Bible both mentions and condones eight types of marriage.
Biblically speaking, God seemed surprisingly open to working with various cultures' ideas of marriage. The notion of marriage being limited to one man and one woman comes from Genesis 2:24, which describes man and woman becoming united.
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(#11) The Magi May Have Had A Much Longer Journey Than You Think
Despite what Nativity scenes around the world would have you believe, the Magi - or wise men - who gifted the baby Jesus with gold, frankincense, and myrrh didn't find Him on the night of His birth. Matthew 2:11 specifies that the Magi visited Jesus and His mother in a house, rather than the manger where He was born.
Though there's a lot of debate among scholars about when the visit took place, the consensus is it was somewhere between 40 days after Jesus was born and when He was a little over 2 years old.
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(#14) Sodom May Not Have Been Destroyed For The Reasons You Think
A common misconception is that "the gays" were responsible for the biblical fall of Sodom and Gomorrah (so much so that the word "sodomy" became associated with homosexual sex). But Ezekiel 16:49-50 specifies Sodom's sins were arrogance, gluttony, lack of concern for the poor, haughtiness, and other unspecified "detestable" sins. It mentions nothing about homosexuality.
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The Bible is not a book, but a collection of sixty-six books. These are actually the letters that God has written to us. The content of these books is amazing. There are about forty people who wrote them, they lived in different times and different countries, such as Palestine, Babylon, Greece, Rome, and possibly Arabia, and also wrote in different languages, Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic.
However, the story told in the Bible is always the same, as if a golden thread runs through the book. The random tool shares 21 interesting things from Bible that will surprise you.
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